Refrigerator drawer



Aug. 3 ,1926. ,1,594,435

B. F. VOGT REFRIGERATOR DRAWER Fiied sept. 4,-1924k fig. Z,

45 `muy claimed.

Patentes Aug. ajiezc.Y

Y 1,594,435 P-irlle-NT` OFFICE..

nmmnrcfr r. voG'r, or LoUIsviLLE, KENTUCKY. .l

REFBIGERATOB DRAWER.

Application led Septemher 4,1924. Serial No. 735,798.- t

This invention relates to storage devices wherein drawers are employedfor receiving articles to be stored in a compartment or casing. Moreespecially the invention relates to a refrigerator such as is shown inmycopendin application for Patent No. 675,112, filed ovember 16, 1923,wherein a refrigerator is disclosed vhaving refrigerating compartmentsfor receiving food, cer- 10v tain of the compartments being providedwith drawers forthe reception of articles to berefri erate'cl. Y

In re igerators it is common to place in the refrigerating compartmentsbottles, jars and other receptacles which are either open at the top orare so closed as to be liable to `open when thrown down on one side. In

my improved form of refri erator in which drawers .slide in and out othe refrigerating compartments .these bottles and the like are placed onthe bottom of the drawers and consequentlythe movement, in and out, of'

these drawers tends to upset such vessels. YThe principal and mostimportantobject of the present invention is to provide a drawer forrefrigerators and other storage compartments wherein a novel andimproved arrangement will be made for holding bottles jars, and otherlike receptacles in a vertical position, by means employed beingadjustable'both for use and dsuse and for varying sizes of suchreceptacles.

A second Y' portant object of the invention is to provide adrawer ofthis description wherein means -Iare used, formed from the sides of thedrawer itself,lfor support-- ing the vessel for use.

retaining device in position with the abwenden@ objects4 in view 4*0 aswill hereinafter apparent, the invention consists 1n general lofcertainV novel dej tails of construction and combinations of Vparts'hereinafter fully described,` illustrated 1n the accompanying drawingsand specifithe vessel l llisa section on the line 3---I3lof v topplanview .of Vone'end of 'm'chadrawen 1 drawer having side walls 10, arear wall 11 gitudinal vertical. section,

shown peculiarly adaptedfor use in connection with refrigeratngcompartments. That is to say it is so arranged 'as to permit free.circulation of air vertically through the* drawer but it is to beunderstood that the device is. applicable to other forms of drawerswherein it is not necessary that air circulate freely therethrough.However, in the present disclosure there is shown a and a front wall 12.The side walls 10 are turned inA at the bottom to provide ledges 13vwhereonI rests a reticulated bottom-14= so that air may freelyAcirculate through such drawer,A also the side walls which are ofmetalpreferably are providedl with air circulating openings 15.

The drawer is preferably made of metal, so that the side walls areformed ofV thin metal sheets and slightly above the middle of these sidewalls the metal is bent in to provideiledges 16. At one or both ends ofthese side walls, slightly above the ledges 16,` therel are providedopenings'l spaced having a centrally straight portionf19 and 95 Vlegs20.' These bars are substantially resilient to permit the journal ends18 to be sprung out of one set or pair of openings 15 and inserted inanother. Moreover the first air of openings, at each end of the drawer1s suiiiciently near to that end to allow the straight portion 1 9 ofthe bar to be folded close to the end, or to befolded away from -the endthis portion and the adjacent parts of the legs 20 resting on the ledges16 in 105 each'of said positions. y

Withthis arrangement it will bc obvious that a bottle, such as shown atYB 1n Figure 1 may be held from falling over o'r a jar at J may besilnilarlypheldA and that the bars 19 may be turned to lie close to theends in position of disuso or away Yfrom the Yends ixi terial spiritthereof.

position of use. It will, furthermore, be noted that the spacing ofthese bars from the end may be'varied by simply turning the bars Loinone position to the other on the journalled ends 18.

It will now be obvious that movement in and out of the drawers will notupset such bottles or vessels. s

There has thus been provided asimple and eflicient device of the hinddescribed and 'for the purpose speciiett.

It is obvious that minor changes may be made in the form andconstruction of the invention without departing from the ma- It is not,therefore, desired to confinev the invention to the exact form hereinshown and described, but it is desired to include all such as properlycome within the scope claimed.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed as new, is:

1I A drawer for the purpose described having sidewalls provided withoppositely disposed longitudinally extending ledges, and a U-shapedarticle retaining loop haw 'having side walls each havin ings armsjournalled in the side walls of said drawer and the said arms resting onsaid ledges.

2. A drawer for the purpose described an inwardly projectinglongitudinally disposed ledge,

the walls having opposed spaced openings adjacent one end and locatedabove said U-shaped retaining bar having outwardly projecting endsengaging selectively in the openings in the sald walls and resting onsaid ledge, said bar being movable in one position toward the end wallof the drawer and in the other position away from the same.

` BENEDICT F. VOGT.

